{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-commission-appeal-tribunal-rules-2000/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-commission-appeal-tribunal-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Power to strike out applications",
  "text": "(1) The tribunal may, after hearing the parties, strike out an application at any stage in the proceedings if–\n(a) it considers that the application discloses no valid ground of appeal;\n(b) it is satisfied that the applicant has habitually and persistently and without any reasonable ground–\n(i) instituted vexatious proceedings, whether against the same person or different persons; or\n(ii) made vexatious applications in any proceedings; or\n(c) the application does not comply with rule 6 in a substantial respect, and the applicant has not remedied the defect pursuant to a direction under rule 7(1); or\n(d) the applicant fails to comply with a direction of the tribunal.\n(2) When the tribunal strikes out an application it may make any consequential order it considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/261/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:29.744365+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}